Utah — statewide
Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code
In short
Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code issues 4 permits we publish for Utah — statewide, last verified 2026-09-04. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Articles of Incorporationonly if it applies to you | Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code | $59 one-time filing | perpetual, but a renewal is due every year | 2026-09-04 |
| Certificate of Organization (LLC)only if it applies to you | Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code | $59 one-time filing | perpetual, but a renewal is due every year | 2026-09-04 |
| General Business License — Utah State Position (Entity Registration)only if it applies to you | Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code | No fee | set by the city or county | 2026-09-04 |
| Annual Renewalonly if it applies to you | Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code | $18 a year; a late renewal adds $10 | annual — due in the calendar month tied to the entity's own formation anniversary | 2026-09-04 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Articles of Incorporation
A business that chooses to incorporate has one or more incorporators deliver its articles of incorporation to the Division of Corporations and Commercial Code for filing, and any incorporator who is a natural person must be at least eighteen. The filing fee is $59, the same as an LLC's certificate of organization, and a nonprofit corporation's articles cost the same $59; an optional expedited processing fee adds $75 per filing, and every processing fee is nonrefundable. The corporation then renews every year for $18, a figure that includes a $5 surcharge for the state's single sign-on portal, and a late renewal adds $10 — see the annual renewal record.
Certificate of Organization (LLC)
Per the Division of Corporations' current fee schedule, a certificate of organization for a limited liability company is $59, the same figure whether the entity is domestic or registering in from out of state. A business corporation costs the identical $59 to form, and a renewal is due every year.
General Business License — Utah State Position (Entity Registration)
There is no state fee for a general business license listed here. The Division of Corporations' own 'Do I need to register?' guidance describes state-level filing as entity registration (articles of incorporation, a certificate of organization, or an application for authority) and says that if another unit of government requires you to register with the division, you need to be registered; it describes no general state license to operate. A city or county license is what functions as a general business license for most Utah businesses.
Annual Renewal
Eighteen dollars a year, the same figure for an LLC or a corporation, due in the entity's own anniversary month rather than a single date shared statewide. Missing it is not immediately fatal: the statute gives sixty days from the division's notice to cure before administrative dissolution follows, and reinstating after dissolution costs $54 for an LLC or a corporation. A dissolved entity's name, and any assumed names filed under it, cannot be reused by anyone else for two years afterward.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Utah — statewide
- Phone
- (801) 530-4849
- Website
- corporations.utah.gov/
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- Utah Code section 16-10a-1421 — administrative dissolution of a corporationUtah State Legislature · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-04
- Utah Code section 16-10a-201 — incorporators deliver the articles of incorporation to the division for filingUtah State Legislature · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Utah Code section 48-3a-708 — administrative dissolution of an LLC after a 60-day cure periodUtah State Legislature · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-04
- Utah Division of Corporations — do I need to register, describing entity registration rather than a general business licenseUtah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-04
- Utah Division of Corporations — fiscal year 2026 fee schedule, effective 1 July 2025Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-04
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